>Selling your body for sex may not be liberating per se, but perhaps it may
>be comparatively liberating. It may liberate you from starvation, or even
>from the need to prostitute your mind and body in other more degrading ways.
then he wrote
>How is this any different from paying someone to provide any other
>service, which they would be unwilling to provide without money? How is it
>different to any paid work?
It's different because of what you wrote in your first paragraph.
>I agree that performing a service only in exchange for money is degrading.
>But that's how we live. Only the ruling class are free from the need to so
>degrade themselves, the rest of us are all prostitutes. Talk about
>respecting the integrity of other prostitutes is a form of denial, as is
>the opposite extreme of the pot calling the kettle black.
I respect human beings whether they prostitute their bodies or their minds. I would simply not say that being involved in an exchange of money for sex is in any way liberating.
Joanna